Here comes my best wordpress business theme to date, called Berita. It is minimalistic looking theme that will suit every company that wants to display its corporate image clearly and professionally. Web designers may use it for their online projects and offer their clients web sites with all premium features they will need.

358 Responses to “Berita Business WordPress Theme”

Tnx, I don’t think you’ll need to translate this one in Russian, maybe administration files only 😉

Kalcha

9 years ago

Hi Željan Topić,

I am really bowled over by your attention to detail. Be it the “Iso Therm News Theme” or the latest “Berita Business Theme”… you are really the most consistently professional WordPress theme developer I have seen in a long time.

I have experimented with a lot of premium themes in the past, but they all have been… like produced out of a factory with no real differentiating factor or attention to detail. Your unique themes are really refreshing and keep it up. And also, if possible, try to monetize your work. It’s really precious.

All The Best,
KALCHA

idntt

9 years ago

I like it a lot, thanks for sharing. You have outdone yourself with this theme. Keep up the good work.

I am no WordPress genius but i have worked with quite a few WordPress templates in my time, I have worked on this theme for HOURS but I cannot get the slider to work, any tips or advice? I already read your support guide, but my slider will not work at all, I am not talking about not displaying images, I am talking about how it just doesnt work at all, can you guide us how to set up the slider step by step.

It may be my fault not yours but I simply cannot find out why the theme is not working like it should be. I deleted it from WordPress and reinstalled a new copy i just downloaded from this site, I deactivated all plug ins, I read all the directions five times, am I the only one who is having this issue???

I created both sample pages and sample posts and put the page ID in the correct place, separated by commas no spaces just like you wrote and…..nothing happens.

All i see is the static “about” page as the front page on my website. No slider, no nothing.

wow. the best corporate style wordpress theme ever. I love your design. can be customized easily!

Leon

9 years ago

Thanks for the theme, it’s awesome! Unfortunately, my blog is in Dutch, so the relative date translation won’t work: the plural form doesn’t only add a letter (i.e. hour -> hours) but also changes the word (i.e. uur -> uren, which is the Dutch translation for hour -> hours).
Do you have any ideas how to change this? Otherwise, how can I disable the relative dates?

Hi Željan , I am trying out the theme in my themetester , as I wrote in my previus comment, the problems I am having with the page name Home I have not figured out yet. I would like to change the pagename Home, to Hem, that would be the correct name in my country. I cant find it in your instructions. Perhaps you have som instructions you could email to me? I would hate to give up the theme,
Thanks
/Steff

Hi again, I have to ask another question, I try to find where Im supposed to put in text and picture to be seen in the slider, but I dont know where to do that. Is it the place where I create a new page… Or is it where I create a new post…? Probably another stupid question from me, but I have tried to figure it out for quite some time now…
Thanks
/Steff

I just cant get the slider to work. I looked at Kevin Myrick page (problem in above post) and I might have the same problem he has. I have talked to my webhosting provider about chmod, but cant get it right anyway…
/Steff

Im not sure about how you mean with “include pages instead of posts”. First I hover over the media library to se the ID of the picture I have uploaded, (edit&attachment_id=129). I go to Front Slider Settings (in berita options) and I edit the commaseparated page ID to 129,134 (134 being the other picture) Then I go to media library again, take Show/View (on the selected picture, to get the url for the picture: http://www.grondals.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/1.jpg, and then I go to Pages, add page, and choose in the Featured image setting, Custom image location: I paste the url of the picture. And lets say I would like it to link to my Aboutpage, the destination link should be http://www.grondals.com/om/. I then click publish.
/Steff

Hi again Željan , the theme lookes great and works perfectly, now I only have a couple more question:

1. is it possible to change the background color of the default logo, do I do that in the custom.css as it say in the description, or do I do it in the style.css.
OR do I copy code/text from style.css in to custom.css and just change the colors? (I am not a coder, that is why I probobly need to copy from style.css.)

2. does the colorchange of the default logo also make the changes to the color around the searchbox, or is that more difficult to do?

Verdana is on purpose, it fits better with everything around….Georgia doesn’t work for small fonts.

Leon

9 years ago

I tried to align the grey stars for the lists of categories and twitter updates, but I couldn’t get them properly aligned. It seems like the twitter updates get extra styling, but I can’t figure out how it is coded.

To see the problem go to the demo, and see the difference between the twitter updates footer item and the recent posts footer item. The stars aren’t aligned properly. Do you have any options or tricks?

Didn’t notice that they’re aligned differently, tnx for mentioning,…as alignment is off just for a pixel ot two I won’t release an upgrade but if you feel this needs to be corrected open style.css, copy attributes of twitter widget and paste them in custom.css, there you can edit them to suit your needs.

Steff

9 years ago

Hi Željan ,
I uploaded the Google Sitemap generator, and it seems to be working. Many people seems to be recommending the “All in one SEO pack”. Do you think I should take that plugin to? Do you recommend that plugin?

Lovin’ this theme! Took a little bit of time to figure out, but considering how feature rich it is relatively straightforward.

Problems I noticed:
-The feature slider doesn’t appear to accept .png images.
-If a category has a non alpha character in the title, it won’t work as a tab – for example, for blogs I was calling the category Bloggin’ and because of the apostrophe the theme kept deleting the category # from the code.
-I also had to disable almost all previous plugins for this theme to work – I then reactivated the plugins I needed, and haven’t yet found what may have conflicted.
-Text/image replacement plugins like siFr and AnyFont aren’t compatible… perhaps if I adjusted code it would be.

Otherwise, though, a brilliant theme, and especially appreciate that its free!

Erika

9 years ago

Hi!

I’m trying to do a button in Front Footer 2 widget but it doesn’t work…

Well, I found the widget “Text with button” and I asked to myself “how i can be so blind”??????

Thanks!

David Markland

9 years ago

Problem: captioned photos don’t seem to work. I tried playing with custom CSS without any luck. The captions fall outside of the grey area, and there’s little to no spacing around surrounding text.
Help?

Hi, absolutely love your theme. After fiddling around with permalink-settings, I get this error
“Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in…” when clicking on my blog-link in the navigation.

Tried to change stuff back, but the error remains – is there anyway to reset theme options?

“I though it is light already:)… however, did you mean color light, or feature light?”
Feature light of course. A want to make fewer php querys and less css and javascript. By the way php-speedy doesn’t work correctly with your theme. The sidebar goes down. Any suggestions?

Haven’t worked with php-speedy so I can’t suggest anything, sorry. Features in option panel don’t slow down theme performance as theme settings and theme front-end are separated…so if you wan’t to speed it up optimize theme front-end files.

“Haven’t worked with php-speedy”
You should give it a try, very useful plugin for complex designs. Page load time decreases drastically. Also i have few questions about javascript: i don’t want to use featured article on main page, so can i disable “step carousel”? And how can i disable jquery totally, will it be painless for theme design?
And one more request: please make more themes like berita. I’ve searched for something like it long time, your design met all my demands and i like your style very much.
sorry for bad english

David Markland

9 years ago

Small note: the copyright on the index page says 2008… its 2009 on blog pages.

David Markland

9 years ago

Second question/request – for the Twitter plugin, is there a way to filter out @ replies?

No, not at this time – it’s very simple widget for displaying tweets, so if you have time you may edit the widget alltogether: don’t forget to share your tweaks if you go into this journey 😉

Stefan

9 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for a great theme! I have a few questions:
1. Is it possible to change the gray stars, to some other picture?
2. in my blog posts, the date format is, 2 weeks, 1 day ago. Is it possiby to get it lika 2009/06/08 instead?
3. In the Berita Theme options, there is in the right column, where you can Add noindex tags. I have all of them unchecked. Do you recommend that? In the picture you have on this site, (where you show the Berita Theme options, you have all options checked… Whats the best do you think?

Yes, check images folder in theme files
Yes, open archive.php, index.php, single.php … and find lines where date is presented
Yes, I recommend this as it has no value to your blog to index category, tag, author … pages

Stefan

9 years ago

Hi again,
about the stars again, is it the “list-star-trans.png” that is in the berita/images folder?
Is it possible to change it to another picture, about the same size? And does that new picture end up at the same places as the stars….?

Open “list-star-trans.png” in your favourite photo editor and change it to whatever you like. Try to keep the size and yes, new pic will end up in the same place.

RamJaw

9 years ago

Lovely theme. It’s exactly what I’m looking for to help a friend setup her site.

However, I’m having a bit of difficulty setting the Featured Images on the mainpage slider.

I’m using WordPress 2.7, and the first oddity I noticed was that the option for Berita Featured Image Settings could not be found in the New Post entry but instead on the New Page entry. I’ve uploaded the photos to my content folder (as well as the media library folder) and inputed the location of the file in the Featured Image Settings and published the page. I reloaded the page and the Featured Image didn’t show up. I’m currently using MAMP, so I do not think my permissions are the problem. The only other thing I can think of is perhaps the page assignment for the Slider. I don’t actually know the ID # of the Page (or if this even exists). I used to be able to see these #s in previous wordpress versions, but don’t know where they are on the present version.

Custom fields are displayed in page edit/add mode only as only pages work with featured slider on front page. When inserting page ID, go to Pages in WP admin, hover over page link and see which ID it has.

RamJaw

9 years ago

Ahh! Got it! How does one center it? I tried putting the image location in quotes and adding align=”center” in the custom settings, but that didn’t work.

RamJaw

9 years ago

Nevermind. Tried something else and it worked! Thanks for all the help though. You’re great.

MissN

9 years ago

Hi Zeljan,
Thank you for making this theme available for free. This is a really nice theme.
I am toying on the idea of putting a flash gallery instead of the featured slider. I have found a free flash gallery. Do you think it’s possible to do with Berita? Sorry if this sounds a stupid question. I have zero knowledge in coding. But I can follow instructions =)

Fantastic work; exactly what I was looking for. A couple of questions?

1. Where/how do I change the navigation bar colour? This should be easy, I can change all the other colours, but I seem to be missing something!
2. Is is possible to set the background as an image and how?
3. Can you puzzle out why my widgets on the main/home page have disappeared?

edit style.css file where you’ll find all styles you need. If you’re not a coder I’d suggest you to hire one to help you out as this might be challenging for somene without knowledge of html+css.

Ajita

9 years ago

Hi Zeljan,

I started working with your wonderful theme and am really excited about using it for my project. But I have been trying to position the navbar on the homepage, and I’m not having any luck. The positioning is fine for all other pages! I can’t figure out what went wrong! Would you mind talking a look and letting me know what it is that I need to do? http://greensemble.com

Is there any way to control how much content gets pulled into the slider? I tried using the “more” option, but that didn’t have any effect. It’s pulling half of a line of text and that doesn’t look good. Is there a way to make an excerpt?

I presume that “Berita Business WordPress Theme” displays the SAME 6 ad spots on EVERY PAGE. I want it to display a different 6 ad spots for the full version (read more version) of every post? Can someone suggest the code modifications necessary to do that?

You’re correct, I does display same 6 ad spots on all pages. If you want more magic to it, you’ll need some if loops in sidebar to make it work.

Alex

9 years ago

Hi Zeljan!
Great GREAT Theme. Thank you so much. It really helped me a lot.

I have a tiny question. Probably a beginners problem but hey I never thought I’d come this far… 🙂
I’d like to use the sidebar on every single page, not only in the blog section. can you give me a hint how to do that?

thx,
alex

Alex

9 years ago

Hi! Me again…

I allready managed to implement the sidebar into the pages. All I had to do was pasting from the single.php into the pages.php and ome minor changes in the pages.php:

change into so it looks like on the single.php and
delete the last

Maybe it helps someone with the same problem…unless it can be done better 😉

After hours and hours and hours of looking for the perfect theme, I finally found Berita! Yay! However, I have a problem I haven’t been able to figure out. I am using the theme for a website that also has a blog page. I imported a wordpress.com blog (with only four posts) and though I now have the content on the new site, the permalinks don’t work (at all). I know this happens when importing a blog that has a different permalink structure, so I decided to just repost the old posts under new dates and as fresh posts (I created new posts rather than editing the old ones). I have the same problem with the urls. There are no permalinks and there’s no way to access the individual blog posts. What am I doing wrong? This is rather urgent, so I hope you read this soon! Thanks in advance…

I have remove the blog sidebar code from the pages and I would like to remove the blog sidebar option from the dashboard also. When I remove it from widgets_functions.php. Footer section 3 disappears from my front footer. Thanks

1) You probably played with footer or header navigation and deleted to much code so js doesn’t operate like it should.
2) I used this because some people use permalinks and some don’t – ?cat=3 works in both cases.

joey

9 years ago

if you go back 2-4 month ( my posts are above) and I did not hack anything yet — it was right out of the box and it had the ERRORS. Im not the only one asking about it.

Please see if you can address it? As i really like your theme..

Also – regarding the reply:

2) I used this because some people use permalinks and some don’t – ?cat=3 works in both cases.

I want it without ?Cat=3, how do i change it? please let me know. Id prefer
site.com/cat/post.html

thanks in advance!

joey

9 years ago

also – whats the secret to getting email feedburner subscriptions to work?

i get this error:
The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled

No, only pages for now – query is constructed in a way that it’s only possible to call either pages or posts. However if you want posts instead of pages, edit theme files yourself: open library/includes/featured-slider.php and edit query to call posts id’s instead of page id’s.

Thanks alot for your hard work!
Had the same (minor) problem as Steven and Joey with your great theme Inuitypes in Internet Explorer: the site does work in IE 7 / 8 but wit a warning about missing code or argument. The error report states: “document.getElementById(…) is null or not an object”.

Have found a solution for now, and want your approval, or opinion. I opened the editor in WP, opened Footer.php and removed the next section, and the error report is gone…

Thx, Peter, I’m aware of this issue but am working on bizzthemes.com platform at the moment so I cannot implement fixes to old bizzartic frame as new bizzthemes frame uses superfish dropdowns, which will be implemented to old free themes after platform is released.

I have tried different templates. Here I am with your stuck. It pleases me very well and I’m äüßerst at peace with it. Thanks for the good and perhaps not always easy work on the template.
Greetings
Stefan